THE WORLD BIRDS - An Online Bird Book
THRAUPIDAE - the Tanager Family
TANAGERs
The
Thraupidae are a family of passerine birds found in the Americas. About 60% of tanagers live in South America, and 30% of these species live in the Andes. Most species are endemic to a relatively small area. In addition to "
tanagers",
dacnis,
finches,
flowerpiercers,
honeycreepers,
seedeaters, and many other diversely named species are included in
Thraupidae. The
tangara genus includes some of the most spectacularly colored THE WORLD BIRDS.
Tanagers are omnivorous, and their diets vary from genus to genus. They have been seen eating fruits, seeds, nectar, flower parts, and insects. Many pick insects off branches. Other species look for insects on the undersides of leaves. Yet others wait on branches until they see a flying insect and catch it in the air.
Some birds that are called Tanagers are actually in the Cardinal family
Cardinalidae.
Genus Anisognathus
Tanager,_Blue-winged Mountain- Anisognathus somptuosus Found:
northern South America
Image by: 1)
Tad Boniecki - Ecuador 2)
Will George 3)
Dick Daniels -
National Aviary


Genus Bangsia
Tanager,_Black-and-gold Bangsia melanochlamys Found: northern Andes of Columbia
Image by: 1)
Nick_Athanas 2)
Anlejandro_Bayer_Tamayo 3)
Francesco_Veronesi


Tanager,_Blue-and-gold Bangsia arcaei Found: Costa Rica, Panama
Image by: 1)
Cornell_Univ's_Neotropical_Birds_Online - Arco_Huang in Costa rica 2)
Michael_Woodruff

Tanager,_Golden-chested Bangsia rothschildi Found: Columbia, Ecuador
Image by: 1)
Nick_Athanas - Ecuador 2)
_Cornell_Univ's_Neotropical_Birds_Online - Luke_Seitz in Ecuador

Tanager,_Gold-ringed Bangsia aureocincta Found: Columbia
Image by: 1)
Nick_Athanas 2, 3) Francesco_Veronesi


Tanager,_Moss-backed Bangsia edwardsi Found: Columbia, Ecuador
Image by: 1, 2) Nick_Athanas - Ecuador 3) Eric Gropp



Tanager,_Yellow-green Bangsia flavovirens Found: Columbia, Ecuador
Image by: 1) Nick Athanas - Ecuador

Genus Calochaetes - 1 species
Tanager,_Vermilion Calochaetes coccineus Found: Columbia, Ecuador, Peru
Image by: 1) Nick_Athanas - Ecuador

Genus Calyptophilus
Tanager,_Eastern_Chat Calyptophilus frugivorus Found: Hispaniola
Image by: 1) Miguel_Landestoy

Tanager,_Western_Chat Calyptophilus tertius Found: Hispaniola
Image by: 1) Rafy_Rodriguez 2) Guillermo_Armenteros


Genus Chlorochrysa
Tanager,_Glistening-green Chlorochrysa phoenicotis Found: Pacific slopes of Colombia and northwest Ecuador
Image by: 1) Francesco_Veronesi - Columbia 2) Nick Athanas- Ecuador


Tanager,_Orange-eared Chlorochrysa calliparaea Found: Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela
Image by: 1) Andres_Cuervo 2) Ana_Agreda - Ecuador


Genus Chlorornis - 1 species
Tanager,_Grass-green Chlorornis riefferii Found: Andes of Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, Peru
Image by: 1) Nick_Athanas - Ecuador 2) Michael_Woodruff - Ecuador

Genus Chrysothlypis
Tanager,_Black-and-yellow Chrysothlypis chrysomelas Found: Costa Rica, Panama
Image by: 1) Cornell_Univ's_Neotropical_Birds_Online - Lauren_Harter 2) Don_Faulkner Tom_Benson - Costa Rica
1) Female 2, 3) Male



Tanager,_Scarlet-and-white Chrysothlypis salmoni Found: Columbia, Ecuador
Image by: 1, 2) Nick Athanas - Ecuador 3) Andres_Cuervo
1) Female 2, 3) Male



Genus Cissopis - 1 species
Tanager,_Magpie Cissopis leverianus Found: South America
Image by: 1) Francesco_Veronesi - Peru 2) Claudio_Timm - Brazil 3) Nick_Athanas - Brazil



Genus Cnemoscopus - 1 species
Tanager,_Gray-hooded Bush- Cnemoscopus rubrirostris Found: South America
Image by: 1) Dario Sanches - Brazil 2) Ana Agreda

Genus Compsothraupis - 1 species
Tanager,_Scarlet-throated Compsothraupis loricataFound: northeast Brazil
Image by: 1) Cornell_Univ's_Neotropical_Birds_Online - Joao_Quental

Genus Conothraupis
Tanager,_Black-and-white Conothraupis speculigera Found: Bolivia, Brazil (state of Acre), Ecuador, Peru
Image by: 1) Joe_Tobias 2) Nick_Athanas - Ecuador
1) Juvenile male 2) Male


Tanager,_Cone-billed Conothraupis mesoleuca Found: Brazil
Image by: 1) William_Price 2, 3) Nick_Athanas - Columbia



Genus Creurgops
These are heavy billed tanagers of the South American Andes.
Tanager,_Rufous-crested Creurgops verticalis Found: Andes in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela
Image by: 1) Cornell_Univ's_Neotropical_Birds_Online -Fabrice Schmitt in Peru, Roger_Ahlman in Ecuador


Tanager,_Slaty Creurgops dentatus Found: Bolivia, Peru
Image by: 1) Tony_Castro - Peru
1) Female 2) Male

Genus Cyanicterus - 1 species
Tanager,_Blue-backed Cyanicterus cyanicterus Found: mainly northeast Brazil; also southeast Venezuela
Image by: 1, 2) Cornell_Univ's_Neotropical_Birds_Online - Anselmo_d'Affonseca in Brazil


Genus Cypsnagra - 1 species
Tanager,_White-rumped Cypsnagra hirundinacea Found: mainly in Brazil
Image by: 1) Nick_Athanas - Brazil 2) Nortondefeis


Genus Embernagra
Finch, Great Pampa- Embernagra Platensis Found:
South America
Image by: André Roviralta Dias Baptista - Brazil
Genus Eucometis - 1 species
Tanager,_Gray-headed Eucometis penicillata Found: Mexico, Central America, northern South America
Image by: 1, 2, 3, 4) Dick Daniels - Soberania National Park, Panama




Genus Hemithraupis
Tanager,_Guira Hemithraupis guira Found:South America
Image by: 1) Cornell_Univ's_Neotropical_Birds_Online - Luke_Seitz in Ecuador 2) Dario Sanches - Brazil 3) Nick Athanas - Ecuador
1) Female 2. 3) Male



Tanager,_Rufous-headed Hemithraupis ruficapilla Found: Brazil
Image by: 1) Cláudio Timm -
Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil 2) Gustavo Magnago
1) Female 2) Male


Tanager,_Yellow-backed Hemithraupis flavicollis Found: extreme eastern Panama, northern South America
Image by: 1) Hector_Bottai - Brazil 2) Nick Athanas - Brazi 3) Claudio Timm


Genus Heterospingus
Found: South America
Tanager,_Scarlet-browed Heterospingus xanthopygius Found: Columbia, Ecuador
Image by: 1, 2) Ron_Knight - Columbia 3) Nick Athanas - Columbia
1) Pair 2, 3) Male



Tanager,_Sulphur-rumped Heterospingus rubrifrons Found: Costa Rica, Panama
Image by: 1) HarmonyonPlanetEarth 2) Cornell_Univ's_Neotropical_Birds_Online - David_McDonald in Panama


Genus Iridosornis
Found: South America
All iridosonis have blue upperparts and some bright yellow/gold on their head.
Tanager,_Golden-collared Iridosornis jelskii Found: Bolivia, Peru
Image by: 1) Nick Athanas - Peru 2) Claudio_Timm


Tanager,_Golden-crowned Iridosornis rufivertex Found: Columbia, Ecuador, Peru
Image by: 1) Nick Athanas - Ecuador 2) Michael_Woodruff - Ecuador

Tanager,_Purplish-mantled Iridosornis porphyrocephalus Found: Columbia, Ecuador
Image by: 1) Nick Athanas - Ecuador 2, 3) Francesco_Veronesi - Columbia



Tanager,_Yellow-scarfed Iridosornis reinhardti Found: Peru
Image by: 1, 2) Nick Athanas


Tanager,_Yellow-throated Iridosornis analis Found: Columbia, Ecuador, Peru
Image by: 1) David_Cook - Peru 2) Christopher_Canaday - Ecuador 3) Francisco_Enríquez - Ecuador



Genus Lamprospiza - 1 species
Tanager,_Red-billed_Pied Lamprospiza melanoleuca Found: mainly Brazil; also Bolivia, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname
Image by: 1) Doug_Janson

Genus Mitrospingus
Tanager,_Dusky-faced Mitrospingus cassinii Found: Costa Rica, Panama, Columbia, Ecuador, Venezuela
Image by: 1) Dominic Sherony 2) Nick_Athanas - Ecuador


Tanager,_Olive-backed Mitrospingus oleagineus Found: Brazil, Guyana, Venezuela
Image by: 1) Brendan_Ryan - Venezuela

Genus Nemosia
Tanager,_Cherry-throated Nemosia rourei Found: Brazil
Image by: 1) Cornell_Univ's_Neotropical_Birds_Online - Espírito_Santo

Tanager,_Hooded Nemosia pileata Found: South America
Image by: 1, 3) Cláudio
Timm -
Paraná River
border, Argentina 2) gjofili 4) Nick_Athanas - Brazil
1) Female 2, 3, 4) Male




Genus Neothraupis - 1 species
Tanager,_White-banded also Shrike-like Tanager Neothraupis fasciata Found: central South America - mainly Brazil
Image by: 1) Nick_Athanas - Brazil 2) Carlos_Henrique 3) Hector_Bottai - Brazil



Genus Nesospingus - 1 species
Tanager_Puerto_Rican Nesospingus speculiferus Found: Puerto Rico
Image by: 1) John_Gerrard_Keulemans 2) Gabriel


Genus Orchesticus - 1 species
Tanager,_Brown Orchesticus abeillei Found: southeast Brazil
Image by: 1) Francesco_Veronesi 2) Nick_Athanas 3) Brendan_Ryan



Genus Orthogonys - 1 species
Tanager,_Olive-green Orthogonys chloricterus Found: Brazil
Image by: 1) Nick_Athanas 2) Claudio_Timm 3)Carlos_Henrique



Genus Parkerthraustes - 1 species
Grosbeak,_Yellow-shouldered Parkerthraustes humeralis Found: Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru
Image by: 1) Tony_Castro - Ecuador 2) Nick Athanas - Ecuador


Genus Paroaria
These members of the Thraupidae family are termed cardinals and are black upperparts, white underparts, and some red on the head.
Cardinal,_Crimson-fronted Paroaria baeri Found: Brazil
Image by: 1) Cornell_Univ's_Neotropical_Birds_Online - Sebastian_Cal_Martins

Cardinal,_Masked Paroaria nigrogenis Found: northeast Columbia, Trinidad, northern Venezuela
Image by: 1, 3) Barloventomagico 2) birdphotos.com
1) Juvenile


Cardinal,_Red-capped Paroaria gularis Found: South America
Image by: 1, 3) Dick Daniels - the North Carolina Zoo 2) Sandy Cole - the North Carolina Zoo 4) Dick - San Diego Zoo




Tanager,_Red-cowled Paroaria dominicana Found: eastern Brazil
Image by: 1) Nick_Athanas 2) Dario_Sanches 3) Bart van Dorp



Cardinal,_Red-crested also Brazilian Cardinal Paroaria coronata Found: North America (escapee),
South America, Hawaii
Image by: 1, 2, 3, 4) Dick
Daniels - Hawaii 5) Cristiano Crolle - Esteros del Iberà, Argentina





Cardinal,_Yellow-billed Paroaria capitata Found: South
America, Hawaii
Image by: 1) Dick Daniels - Hawaii 2) Gustavo_Duran - Argentina 3) Cristiano Crolle - Argentina 4) Nick_Athanas - Brazil 5) Charles_J_Sharp - Brazil





Genus Phaenicophilus
Tanager,_Black-crowned_Palm Phaenicophilus palmarum Found: Hispaniola and nearby islands.
Image by: 1) Wwcsig 2) Ron_Knight


Tanager,_Gray-crowned_Palm Phaenicophilus poliocephalus Found: Haiti
Image by: 1) Juan_Klavins

Genus Pipraeidea
Tanager,_Blue-and-yellow Pipraeidea bonariensis Found:
South America
Image by: 1, 2, 4) Cláudio Timm -
Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil 3, 5)
Dario Sanches - Brazil
1) Female 2) Juvenile male 3, 4, 5) Male





Tanager,_Fawn-breasted Pipraeidea melanonota Found: South America
Image by: 1) Nicolas_LeJeune 2, 3) Dario
Sanches - Brazil 4) Nick Athanas - Argentina
1) Female 2, 3, 4) Male



Genus Ramphocelus
Found: Central America and South America
The ramphcoelus tanagers have silvery bills. The males are mainly black and red.
Tanager,_Black-bellied Ramphocelus melanogaster Found: Peru
Iage by: 1) Cornell_Univ's_Neotropical_Birds_Online - Henry_Cook

Tanager,_Brazilian Ramphocelus bresilius Found: Brazil
Image by: 1, 4, 6) Dario Sanches - Brazil 2, 5) Cláudio Timm 3) Nick_Athanas
1, 2, 3) Female 4) Juvenile Male 5, 6) Male






Tanager,_Cherrie's Ramphocelus costaricensis Found: Costa Rica, Panama
Image by: 1) Nomdeploom - Costa Rica 2, 4) Francesco_Veronesi - Costa Rica 3) Becky_Matsubara - Costa Rica 5) Bryan Guarente - Costa Rica
1 - 3) Female 4, 5) Male





Tanager,_Crimson-backed Ramphocelus dimidiatus Found:
South America
Image by: 1) Francesco Veronesi - El Valle, Panama 2) barloventomagico 3) Dominic
Sherony - Fuerte Claiton, Panama 4. 5) Nick_Athanas - Panama




Tanager,_Crimson-collared Ramphocelus sanguinolentus Found: Mexico, Central America
and
Image by: 1) Nick_Athanas - Costa Rica 2) Jerry_Oldenettel - Costa Rica 3) John_Norton - Belize 4) Andy_Morffew - Costa Rica




Tanager,_Flame-rumped Ramphocelus flammigerus Found:
South America
Image by: 1) Julian Londono 2) Alejandro_Tamayo 4) Dominic Sherony 3, 5) Nick_Athanas - Ecuador
1, 2, 3) Female 4, 5) Male





Tanager,_Masked_Crimson Ramphocelus nigrogularis Found: Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru
Image by: 1, 2) Nick_Athanas - Ecuador

Tanager,_Passerini's also Scarlet-rumped Tanager Ramphocelus passerinii Found:
Central America
Image by: 1, 4)
Dominic Sherony 2, 3) Jerry Oldenettel - Selva Verde Lodge, Costa Rica 3, 6) Nick_Athanas - Costa Rica
1, 2, 3) Female 4, 5, 6) Male






Tanager,_Silver-beaked Ramphocelus carbo Found: South America
Image by: 1) Cláudio Timm - the Amazon, Brazil 2) Dominic
Sherony 3) Nick_Athanas - Ecuador 4) Dick Daniels - Woodland Park Zoo, Seattle 5) Dario Sanches - Brazil 6, 7) Dick - Ecuador
1, 2, 3) Female 3 - 7) Male







Genus Saltator
Grosbeak,_Black-throated Saltator fuliginosus Found: Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay
Image by: 1) Claudio_Timm 2) Carlos_Henrique - Brazil


Grosbeak, Slate-colored Saltator grossus Found: South America
Image by: 1, 5) Nick Athanas - Ecuador 2) Dominic Sherony 3) José Loaizam - Ecuador 4) Jerry
Oldenettel - Flores, Costa Rica
1, 2, 3) Female 4, 5) Male





Saltator,_Black-cowled Saltator nigriceps Found: Ecuador, Peru
Image by: 1) Cornell_Univ's_Neotropical_Birds_Online - Jorge_Eduardo_Zarate_Cueva in Ecuador 2) Nick_Athanas


Saltator,_Black-headed Saltator atriceps Found: Central America
Image by: 1) Steve Garvie - near Arenal, Costa Rica 2) Dominic Sherony 3, 4, 5) Dick Daniels - Boquette, Panama





Saltator,_Black-throated Saltator atricollis also Saltatricula atricollis Found: mainly Brazil; also Bolivia, Paraguay
Image by: 1, 2) Bernard_Dupont - Brazil 3) Hector_Bottai 4) Nick Athanas - Brazil




Saltator,_Black-winged Saltator atripennis Found: Columbia, Ecuador
Image by: 1) Julian_Londono - Columbia 2) Francesco_Veronesi - Ecuador 3, 4) Nick Athanas -Ecuador




Saltator,_Buff-throated Saltator maximus Found: southeastern Mexico to western Ecuador and northeastern Brazil
Image by: 1) Jerry_Oldenettel - Costa Rica 2) Kathy_and_Sam - Costa Rica 3, 4) Nick Athanas - Ecuador, Costa Rica




Saltator,_Golden-billed Saltator aurantiirostris Found: South America
Image by: 1, 2) Cláudio Timm - Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil 3) Lip Kee - Argentina 4) Cristiano Crolle - El Palmar, Argentina 5) Amy McAndrews - Peru 6) Nick Athanas - Argentina
1, 2) Female 3, 4, 5, 6) Male






Saltator,_Grayish Saltator coerulescens Found: South America
Image by: 1, 2) Cláudio Timm - Paraná River border, Argentina 3, 4) Nick Athanas - Argentina




Saltator,_Green-winged Saltator similis Found: South America
Image by: 1) Carlos_Henrique 2, 3) Dario Sanches - Brazil



Saltator,_Lesser_Antillean Saltator albicollis Found: Lesser Antilles
Image by: 1) Cornell_Univ's_Neotropical_Birds_Online - phillipbonsai 2) Erika Mitchell


Saltator,_Masked Saltator cinctus Found: Columbia, Ecuador, Peru
Image by: 1) Carl Downing 1) _Cornell_Univ's_Neotropical_Birds_Online - Dubi_Shapiro in Columbia
Saltator,_Orinoco Saltator orenocensis Found: Venezuela
Image by: 1) Nick Athanas - Columbia 2, 3, 4) Barloventomagico



Saltator,_Rufous-bellied Saltator rufiventris Found: southern Brazil; extreme northern Argentina
Image by: 1) Orbigny 2) Ron_Knight - Argentina

Saltator,_Streaked Saltator striatipectus Found: Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guadeloupe, Panama, Peru, Venezuela
Image by: 1) Julian_Londono - Columbia 2) Andres_Hernandez - Panama

Saltator,_Thick-billed Saltator maxillosus Found: southeast Brazil, Paraguay
Image by: 1) Carlos Henrique de Almeida 2) Nick Athanas - Brazil 3, 4) Claudio_Timm



Genus Schistochlamys
Tanager,_Black-faced Schistochlamys melanopis Found: South America
Image by: 1, 2, 4) Dick Daniels - National Aviary 3) Sandy Cole- National Aviary




Tanager,_Cinnamon Schistochlamys ruficapillus Found: Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay
Image by: 1) Nick_Athanas - Brazil 2) Nortondefeis 3) Claudio_Timm


Genus Sericossypha - 1 species
Tanager,_White-capped Sericossypha albocristata Found: Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru
Image by: 1) Dave_Curtis - Columbia 2) Nick_Athanas 3) Francesco_Veronesi - Columbai
1) Female 2, 3) Male



Genus Stephanophorus - 1 species
Tanager,_Diademed Stephanophorus diadematus Found: South America
Image by: 1) Andrebaptista - southeast Brazil 2, 3)
Cláudio
Timm -
Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil 4) Nick_Athanas - Brazil




Genus Tachyphonus
Tanager,_Flame-crested Tachyphonus cristatus Found: South America
Image by: 1) Hector_Bottai - Brazil 2) Nick_Athanas - Brazil 3) Dario_Sanches - Brazil
1) Female 2, 3) Male


Tanager,_Fulvous-crested Tachyphonus surinamus Found: northern South America
Image by: 1) Neotropical_Birds_Online - Maxime Dechelle 2) Nick_Athanas - Columbia
1) Female 2) Male


Tanager,_Red-shouldered Tachyphonus phoenicius Found: northern South America
Image by: 1, 2) Barloventomagico 3) Fernando Flores
1) Female 2, 3) Male


Tanager,_Ruby-crowned Tachyphonus coronatus Found: South America
Image by: 1, 6) Cláudio Timm -
Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil 2, 3, 4, 5)
Dario Sanches - Brazil
1, 2, 3) Female 4, 5, 6) Male





Tanager,_Tawny-creasted Tachyphonus delatrii Found: Central America, Columbia, Ecuador
Image by: 1, 2) Nick_Athanas - Panama


Tanager,_White-lined Tachyphonus rufus Found: Central and South America
Image by: 1) Shriram Rajagopalan - Trinidad 2, 4)
Doug Janson 3) Dominic Sherony 5) Steve Garvie - Upper Arima Valley of Trinidad 6) Cristiano Crolle - El Palmar,, Argentina 7) Nick_Athanas - Venezuela
1) Pair 2) Female 3 - 6) Male






Tanager,_White-shouldered Tachyphonus luctuosus Found: Hondoros south to northern South America
Image by: 1, 2, 3) Nick_Athanas - Ecuador, Ecuador, Panama
1) T. l. panamensis 2) T. l. luctuosus 3) T. l.
panamensis



Tanager,_Yellow-crested Tachyphonus rufiventer Found: Bolivia, northeast Brazil, Peru
Image by: 1) Francisco_Piedrahita - Peru 2) Cornell_Univ's_Neotropical_Birds_Online - John_McKean - Peru


Genus Tersina - 1 species
Tanager,_Swallow Tersina viridis Found: Panama to northern Argentina
Image by: 1) Carlos_Henrique 2, 3, 4, 5)
Dario Sanches - Brazil 6) Sandy Cole - San Diego Zoo
1, 2, 3) Female 4, 5, 6) Male





Genus Thlypopsis
Tanager,_Brown-flanked Thlypopsis pectoralis Found: Peru
Image by: 1) Cornell_Univ's_Neotropical_Birds_Online - Ian_Davis

Tanager,_Buff-bellied Thlypopsis inornata Found: mainly in Peru, also extreme southern Ecuador
Image by: 1) Cornell_Univ's_Neotropical_Birds_Online - Ian_Davis in Peru 2) Nick_Athanas - Peru
1) Female 2) Male


Tanager,_Chestnut-headed Thlypopsis pyrrhocoma Found: ne Argentina, se Brazil, eastern Paraguay
Image by: 1) Nick_Athanas - Brazil 2) JQuental

Tanager,_Fulvous-headed Thlypopsis fulviceps Found: Columbia, Veneauela
Image by: 1) Fernando_Flores 2) Andres_Cuervo

Tanager,_Orange-headed Thlypopsis sordida Found: South America
Image by: 1, 2) Dario Sanches - Brazil

Tanager,_Rufous-chested Thlypopsis ornata Found: Columbia, Ecuador, Peru
Image by: 1) Nick_Athanas - Ecuador 2) Amy_McAndrews - Peru


Tanager,_Rust-and-yellow Thlypopsis ruficeps Found: Argentian, Bolivia, Peru
Image by: 1) Cornell_Univ's_Neotropical_Birds_Online - Fabrice Schmitt 2) Nick_Athanas - Peru
1) Pair


Genus Thraupis
Tanager,_Azure-shouldered Thraupis cyanoptera Found: near coast of Brazil, Paraguay
Image by: 1) Dario Sanches - Brazil 2) Nick_Athanas - Brazil 3) Aaron_Maizlish - Brazil



Tanager,_Black-headed Tangara cyanoptera Found: Brazil, Colombia, Guyana, Venezuela
Image by: 1, 2) Tony_Morris - Venezuela 3) Barloventomagico - Venezuela
1) Female 2, 3) Male


Tanager,_Blue-capped Thraupis cyanocephala Found: northern South America
Image by: 1) Francesco_Veronesi - Columbia 2) Fernando Flores 3) Nick_Athanas - Ecuador 4) Fernando Flores - Venezuela




Tanager,_Blue-gray Thraupis episcopus Found: Mexico to northern Brazil
Image by: 1) Dick Daniels - Washington National Zoo 2) Dominic Sherony - Cusco, Peru
3) Dick - Boquette, Panama 4, 5, 6) Dick - National Aviary 7) Charlie Westerinen - Equitos Peru 8) Dick - Ecuador
2) Thraupis e. urubambae








Tanager,_Glaucous Thraupis glaucocolpa Found: Columbia, Venezuela
Image by: 1) Nick_Athanas - Venezuela 2, 3) Barloventomagico - Venezuela


Tanager,_Golden-chevroned Thraupis ornata Found: Brazil
Image by: 1, 4) Nick Athanas - Brazil 2)
Dario Sanches - Brazil 3) Carlos_Henrique - Brazil
1) Female 4) Male




Tanager,_Golden-naped Tangara ruficervix Found: Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru
Image by: 1) Doug_Janson 2) Francesco_Veronesi - Ecuador 3) Carlos_Henrique - Ecuador



Tanager,_Palm Thraupis palmarum Found: Central and South America
Image by: 1, 2)
Dario Sanches - Brazil 3) Dominic
Sherony 4) Dick Daniels - Ecuador 5, 6) Dick - Panama 7) Nick Athanas - Ecuador







Tanager, Sayaca Thraupis sayaca Found: South America (Brazil is northern-most)
Image by: 1, 2) Dario Sanches -
Brazil 3) Cláudio Timm - Brazil 4) Gustavo_Duran - Argentina




Tanager,_Yellow-winged Thraupis abbas Found: Mexico, Central America
Image by: 1) Dominic_Sherony - Mexico 2) Richard_Gibbons


Genus Trichothraupis - 1 species
Tanager,_Black-goggled Trichothraupis melanops Found: South America
Image by: 1, 2, 3)
Dario Sanches - Brazil 5) Cláudio Timm - Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil 4, 6) Nick_Athanas - Brazil
1 - 4) Female 5, 6) Male






Genus Wetmorethraupis - 1 species
Tanager,_Orange-throated Wetmorethraupis sterrhopteron Found: southeast Ecuador, northern Peru
Image by: 1) Nick Athanas

Family Rhodinocichlidae
Genus Rhodinocichla - 1 species
Tanager,_Rosy_Thrush- Rhodinocichla rosea Found: Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico, Panama, Venezuela
Image by: 1, 2) Cornell_Univ's_Neotropical_Birds_Online - Janet_Zinn

Family Spindalidae
Genus Spindalis
Spindalis,_Hispaniolan Spindalis dominicensis Found: Hiapaniola
Image by: 1) Cornell_Univ's_Neotropical_Birds_Online - Dax_Roman

Spindalis, Jamaican Spindalis nigricephala Found: Jamaica
Image by: 1, 2, 3, 4) Dick Daniels - Jamaica 5) Cornell_Univ's_Neotropical_Birds_Online - Sam_Woods
1, 2) Female 3, 4, 5) Male





Spindalis, Puerto Rican also Puerto Rican Striped-headed Tanager Spindalis portoricensis Endemic to Puerto Rico
Image by: 1, 2) New Jersy Birds
1) Female 2) Male


Spindalis, Western Spindalis zena Found: Mexico, Florida (vagrant), Caribbean
Image by: 1, 5) Laura Gooch 2) Blake Maybank - Cuba 3) Allan_Hopkins - Cuba 4) Dawn Scranton
1) Juvenile male 2, 3) Female 4, 5) Male



